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Peer review, when is it done? Who is doing it?

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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
In your project do you do peer review?

At what stage of the project initiation, execution or other?

Who is doing it? member of other project, external ressource.

Is it done more than once? why ?
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Vincent -

I see peer reviews done on both the products of the project (e.g. training materials, customer-consumable deliverables) as well as the by-products of the project (e.g. requirements documentation, code).

If it is done after the initial creation of the information, it's a QC activity. If it's done while the creation is happening, it is better as there's less rework involved - any type of non-solo work (e.g. pairs programming) would be an example of this.

Kiron
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1 reply by Vincent Guerard
Feb 17, 2018 9:51 AM
Vincent Guerard
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Kiron,

Is there any review of the project management?
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Karan Shah Bangalore, Karnataka, India
We do have formal peer reviews and audits on the project deliverables. These are periodic - primarily before the delivery of a milestone. Almost exclusively during execution. Mostly it is done internally by members of the larger team (who do not have a stake in the project being reviewed).

It is periodic since the project has multiple points-of-no-return (to execute the project successfully without piling on additional effort) and is an important method to manage quality.
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Feb 16, 2018 3:08 PM
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Vincent -

I see peer reviews done on both the products of the project (e.g. training materials, customer-consumable deliverables) as well as the by-products of the project (e.g. requirements documentation, code).

If it is done after the initial creation of the information, it's a QC activity. If it's done while the creation is happening, it is better as there's less rework involved - any type of non-solo work (e.g. pairs programming) would be an example of this.

Kiron
Kiron,

Is there any review of the project management?
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1 reply by Kiron Bondale
Feb 17, 2018 10:41 AM
Kiron Bondale
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Absolutely - when I was working for TD, there were multiple levels of peer review on specific PM artifacts based on the level of complexity of the project, and standard governance practices within our segments required their PMOs to play a QA role on all key documents.

For the very biggest projects & programs (those over $10MM), the EPMO would also play a similar role where a seasoned BA, QA lead, or PM would review the appropriate key artifacts from the project as part of a gating process.

Kiron
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Feb 17, 2018 9:51 AM
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Kiron,

Is there any review of the project management?
Absolutely - when I was working for TD, there were multiple levels of peer review on specific PM artifacts based on the level of complexity of the project, and standard governance practices within our segments required their PMOs to play a QA role on all key documents.

For the very biggest projects & programs (those over $10MM), the EPMO would also play a similar role where a seasoned BA, QA lead, or PM would review the appropriate key artifacts from the project as part of a gating process.

Kiron
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1 reply by Vincent Guerard
Feb 19, 2018 8:10 AM
Vincent Guerard
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Kiron,

Make sense, could there be more then one
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Anish Abraham Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington Auburn, Wa, United States
In my project we do peer reviews in the beginning of a project, and this will help the project team focus on the right tasks. The reviewer will be someone stakeholders respects, so they can influence the senior team to make changes if they are necessary.
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1 reply by Vincent Guerard
Feb 19, 2018 8:14 AM
Vincent Guerard
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Anish,

Interesting, are they repeated to validate the change did take place on key project.

The peer review team is chosen by stakeholders, internal or external?
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
We use peer review as an activity inside our defined quality process. We do that after each governance phase.
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1 reply by Vincent Guerard
Feb 19, 2018 8:17 AM
Vincent Guerard
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Sergio,

Frequency seem very good. What is cover on those review?
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Feb 17, 2018 10:41 AM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Absolutely - when I was working for TD, there were multiple levels of peer review on specific PM artifacts based on the level of complexity of the project, and standard governance practices within our segments required their PMOs to play a QA role on all key documents.

For the very biggest projects & programs (those over $10MM), the EPMO would also play a similar role where a seasoned BA, QA lead, or PM would review the appropriate key artifacts from the project as part of a gating process.

Kiron
Kiron,

Make sense, could there be more then one
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Feb 17, 2018 2:36 PM
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In my project we do peer reviews in the beginning of a project, and this will help the project team focus on the right tasks. The reviewer will be someone stakeholders respects, so they can influence the senior team to make changes if they are necessary.
Anish,

Interesting, are they repeated to validate the change did take place on key project.

The peer review team is chosen by stakeholders, internal or external?
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1 reply by Anish Abraham
Feb 19, 2018 9:56 AM
Anish Abraham
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It's an internal review team, and they are repeated to validate the changes on key projects.
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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Feb 17, 2018 2:54 PM
Replying to Sergio Luis Conte
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We use peer review as an activity inside our defined quality process. We do that after each governance phase.
Sergio,

Frequency seem very good. What is cover on those review?
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Anish Abraham Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington Auburn, Wa, United States
Feb 19, 2018 8:14 AM
Replying to Vincent Guerard
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Anish,

Interesting, are they repeated to validate the change did take place on key project.

The peer review team is chosen by stakeholders, internal or external?
It's an internal review team, and they are repeated to validate the changes on key projects.
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1 reply by Vincent Guerard
Feb 19, 2018 4:22 PM
Vincent Guerard
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Very interesting
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